I graduated high school in 1975 and recently connected with former classmates on Facebook, and that’s when I learned about our 40th reunion planned for this Fall, back in Minnesota. First off I helped setup a group on Facebook for our reunion, then I set about to create a web site based on some requirements from the volunteers organizing the reunion. I decided to used the Free version of WordPress and selected an appropriate web name of https://slp1975.wordpress.com/ where SLP stands for: St. Louis Park.
Some of the features of the reunion site are:
- Responsive web theme for browsing on Desktop, Tablet and Mobile devices
- RSVP – form to ask alumni to attend, sends an email to organizer
- Facebook Group icon and link, where social interaction is encouraged
- Count down until the reunion date
- Google Map to our meeting location
- About – give credit to the volunteers
- Memorial – remember those who are dead
- Who’s Coming – a simple list, or maybe embed a Google Doc
- News – blog posts
- Contact – another form that sends email to an organizer
- No annual fees – using WordPress.com
The RSVP page uses a contact form built with the JetPack form builder:
 
Our Contact page is similar to the RSVP page in that both use the JetPack form builder:
 
Our theme choice is called Chateau, and it has a very simple set of options:
Six widgets fill out the right sidebar:
The Home page and Blog pages are defined in WordPress at: Settings> Reading
Well, there you have it, in just a few hours I’ve built up a reunion web site for my 40th reunion, making the site attractive, functional and free (except for my time).
